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College Ball Show: Sweet 16 & Elite 8 Preview, Debate, and Picks! All 4 #1 Seeds? Recap Weekend! · The Rope A Dope Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: College basketball fans, Welcome back to the College Ball Show.
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: He's Marshall, I'm Chris, and we're going to talk some
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: college basketball. Man Hoop season is in full swing, March madness,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: and you know what all that brings now. Thursday and
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Friday was pretty mild, especially in the app Both afternoon
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: sessions kind of sucked, you know what I mean. There
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: were a lot of blowouts, So we'll definitely bring you
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: through that. And then Saturday and Sunday, Sundays seemed to
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: be by consensus, most people think that was the best day.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll definitely recap what happened in you know, the
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  Speaker 1: first round, in round of thirty two, and then we're
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  Speaker 1: down to sweet sixteen, and really we're just talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: We almost had Colorado State, we almost had you know,
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  Speaker 1: Drake put up a good fight or whatever. But the
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Cinderella story right now, I'm the SEC and it's it's
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: the Razorbacks, which is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Can compare it to with their zero to five and
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  Speaker 2: one and six I think eleven, eleven and seven overall
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  Speaker 2: at the time, and they're in the sweet sixteen, So
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  Speaker 2: of course we'll preview in predict the Sweet sixteen in
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  Speaker 2: the late Elite eight.
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  Speaker 1: We do it every week. We moved forward, so we
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  Speaker 1: won't do our final four picks, but we will be
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  Speaker 1: down to the final four when all said and done.
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  Speaker 1: in my co host Marshall, and I'll shut up for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm good. Brother. Uh got a busy softball week,
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  Speaker 3: but thankfully, now that we are in the further part
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: of the tournament, he's gonna have softball games going on.
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't be able to miss too much basketball Thursday.
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: I got tournaments. I get to not teach and then
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: get to go home after I'm not teaching the whole
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: day and watch a lot of good games tonight. So
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: my schedule is a bit crazy for basketball, but it
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: starting the day for the most part, so I should
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: miss two good of hoops. And hey, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: baby wasn't the most exotic, fun tournament to watch ever.
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  Speaker 4: But I was thinking about that, Like dude, Okay, this
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  Speaker 4: wasn't maybe a ten out of ten, but I will
• 3:36
  Speaker 4: still take a nine out of ten because end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, we got to watch basketball for four days
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  Speaker 4: in a row and it's still like the coolest thing
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  Speaker 4: of the year.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not a lot of fires, but still a
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  Speaker 3: hell of a good time. And man, we got a
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: lot of people. If you pick chock, you might have
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  Speaker 3: a chance for practice year at a lot of top seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, Yeah, yes, the first time in a long time
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  Speaker 1: since all top four seeds made it pretty uh or
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: made it through the first round, I should say. So
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  Speaker 1: you know that that Thursday, it was blowout Central in
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon, no doubt about it. High Point gave Produced
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  Speaker 1: something to think about. Yale kind of came storm back,
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  Speaker 1: gave Texas A and M something to think about. But
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  Speaker 1: that made niece Clemson.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they had the student manager that has his
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: own NLI deal. He's coming out, you know, just setting
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  Speaker 1: the tone, setting the vibe. So that that was one
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  Speaker 1: where you're like, oh my goodness, and dude, I mean
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  Speaker 1: Clemson starts out in the first twelve minutes, they had
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: eight points seven turnovers. They were eight and three. It's
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: thirty one to thirteen at half. Clemson's one of fifteen
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  Speaker 1: from three and five to twenty four from the field,
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  Speaker 1: so not even twenty one percent from the field that
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  Speaker 1: was that was like, oh my goodness, gracious, so that
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, you know, the five twelve
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  Speaker 1: came through. Michigan got by UC San Diego, which some
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: folks were calling that, you know, for an upset. Yale
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  Speaker 1: was another one that people will call for an upset.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan did get by sixty eight sixty five VCU gave
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  Speaker 1: BYU something to think about. But Drake came through sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven fifty seven and then the ten seed Arkansas with
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  Speaker 1: a great coaching matchup back to back games there in
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  Speaker 1: that West Region area, that was an upset, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: like so really the night wasn't that bad. It was
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty damn good. It's just when you're waiting, like
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: five or six games go buying their all blowouts, it
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: is like, what the hell is going on? And the
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: same thing happened on Friday, just blow out, blowout. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I give credit to Robert Morris and Bama game. They
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: actually did give him a good, good little scrap, but
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  Speaker 1: other than that, just blowout. You know, Akron was one
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  Speaker 1: that people were talking about. They got blown out Liberty
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  Speaker 1: was another one that people were like, hey, man, watch
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: out for this. I thought North Carolina was gonna beat
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Old miss I did pick them if they hadn't got
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: off to such a bad start. They did get back
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  Speaker 1: in that game. You never know what would have happened
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  Speaker 1: on that one, but you did have a five to
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  Speaker 1: twelve color. It was kind of a throwback with these
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: five twelves here instead of the six elevens. Colorado State
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  Speaker 1: knocked off Memphis seventy eight seventy That was big, and
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: the St. Mary's Dandy was a really good game. Marquette
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico was pretty solid and definitely Baylor Mississippi. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the opening sessions and overall it didn't give us the
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  Speaker 1: crazy splashes that were used to, but overall, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we still got some action. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know you mentioned the San Diego Michigan game, Chris,
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: and that would have been very interesting to see based
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: on when you bet the game, because I believe it
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: something in some books that opened up at three and
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: a half or two and a half, So depending where
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  Speaker 3: you fell on that line. He could be happier pissed
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: because that was the first one, even when they just
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: came out with the points spreads. I think scores app,
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: which is like that me and my buddy's users for
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: checking scores and stuff, was two and a half. It
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: might have been three and a half though, so that
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  Speaker 3: game would have been like literally Vegas nailed that one, right.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other shocker of Thursday was I was
• 7:53
  Speaker 3: with my mom and one of my former coaches and
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: we were watching the beat ups and it's like, does
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  Speaker 3: the squire really say Georgia three meat a Gonzaga twenty seven?
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: I'd had two beers. I'm like, Okay, I'm not drunk,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like I've been root feed or maybe
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: there's a TYPEO because twenty seventy three is like what
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: Georgia Gonzaga football would be, right, but not basketball.
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  Speaker 1: So that was weird.
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  Speaker 3: And I do think McNee I think that they partied
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  Speaker 3: a bit hard because man, they came out sluggis the
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  Speaker 3: next game. But so mcnice did look good though that
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: first time, and I, uh, they're there. Their hype manager
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  Speaker 3: got some nil deals and it's actually like six figure offers,
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  Speaker 3: so hey, do whatever you're doing, good for you, brother.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like with the coach, hey, any if you can
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  Speaker 3: make money nowadays, and you're you seem to be like
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: a likeable dude. Good for him, you know, I so
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  Speaker 3: be it, uh By, you said, Chris, like I think
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  Speaker 3: now in my in all my years of my of
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: my March Madness trips, I've always there's always seems to
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: be either a Thursday or Friday kind of takes the
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  Speaker 3: is a special day. I didn't feel that both Thursday
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: and Friday this year, pretty like you said, some good games,
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  Speaker 3: but there wasn't like the Cinderella or there wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: buzzer beater. So again, I still got a great time
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  Speaker 3: watching basketball with my dad, my mom, and my fiance.
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  Speaker 3: It was still wall to wall coverage, but I think
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  Speaker 3: we literally mathematically almost get that oh like the Cinderella
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  Speaker 3: run or a team on like a huge comeback or something.
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: It was pretty much like he said, like the teams
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  Speaker 3: that are supposed to win one and that's what we expect, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll bring it back to my point I made
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  Speaker 3: last week or so is I think we have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of really good B level teams this year, and
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  Speaker 3: all those B level teams played like this should have
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: in all the top seed or the underdog seats who
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: trying to play against them realize, well, damn okay, so again,
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  Speaker 3: maybe can't win the title, but shit, that's a good team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like you could say about a Tennessee I know,
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: to CB, I don't know how many people had them
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  Speaker 3: maybe win the whole thing, But Tennessee they took care
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  Speaker 3: of business. Wisconsin played really good basketball. Texas Tech they
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: had a really solid year. They played good basketball. Perdue
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  Speaker 3: been on back on track, you know. So I do
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  Speaker 3: think for Thursday Friday, we were pretty right that, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you had a good year and you're that B
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  Speaker 3: level squad, you covered your spread, which again just really
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: doesn't always happen. I will say, for Drake, have to
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: talk to them. That was the hell of a run.
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: That coach who won four titles and D two basketball
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  Speaker 3: moves up here. Now, shit, he's already he's already going
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  Speaker 3: to Iowa. So the D two Drake story it's already over.
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: So but I may maybe take the last to Iowa out.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: But hey, I will say hats off to Drake because
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: I did pick Missouri in my bracket. I missed that one.
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  Speaker 3: That was maybe because I'm a fan.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: Of a zoo.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think that is a pretty cool story
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: that does show you that it's not always about the
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: skilled guy, and sometimes it is about that cohesion chemistry Chris,
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: because the dude McCollum brought four guys up from like
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: Northwest Missouri State, which is a D two school, and
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: you went thirty one and three after Thursday and he
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: beat a really good SEC team. Like I know they
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: in my head, I was saying, man, like, you know,
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: I know Drakes had a good story. But when Maszoo's
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  Speaker 3: on this year, they've been on, like they beat Florida,
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: they played gith Auburn, they had they had a log
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  Speaker 3: you wins. So that was one of the ones today
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: and Megan, I could be the biases. I'm a fan,
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: but that one did surprise me a little bit out
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  Speaker 3: that Drake's not a good team. But hey, to go
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: head to head with a bunch of really d two
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  Speaker 3: kids and you outplayed pretty much the whole game at
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: SEC school, that's a hell of a job. And hats
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: off to him for going Iowa. Hopefully he can kind
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: of resurrect him a little bit. And this is one
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: of the games we talked about quite a bit last week.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: Was Arkansas. Ku, Hey, you got two cool stories coaching man,
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: who's what top Dog is gonna show? And Chris Before
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: the last three minutes of that game, it was a
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  Speaker 3: coin flip. But I don't know if Kansas was drinking
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: the drunk punch something, but they had four awful turnovers
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: in a row down the stretch, and a couple of
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: them were passes, Like dude, what are you doing so
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: that one man? Like, I know the real eyes want
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: the close games the end, but brother, like there was
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: just they got super super socked with the ball on Arkansas.
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, you're gonna give us the ball? Cool,
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: we'll go donk okay, oh give it to us a game?
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: Oh sweet, all right, we're gonna go win. Like if
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: you watch the first thirty seven minutes and then you're like, kay,
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: you here we go. Close game. To have four turns
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: in a row, that was just a surprise, I think Chris.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: It was the first time in fourteen or fifteen years
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  Speaker 3: that KU lost around one game.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: So clearly Arkansas had a little something to do with that. Well,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: for like, here, man, take the ball, I don't want it,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: but it was I looked at the four twenty eight. Mark,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Kansas did have a lead sixty seven to sixty four,
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  Speaker 1: and there was about a three minutes stretch, give or take,
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  Speaker 1: where Arkansas didn't score. So I was like, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: well this is probably gonna be it. But uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to your point, I didn't think it was just them
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  Speaker 1: messing up. I do think Arkansas had something to do
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  Speaker 1: that because they're long and they were playing defense really good.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that that there's actually a stat since winning
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: the championship round to thirty two, round to thirty two,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: and then the uh the first round this year. Obviously,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: coming into it, we didn't think much of it as
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: far as didn't making a run either way. But they
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: were their favorite in this game, and your boy did
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: pick them. But you know what, do I know? You
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: know what I mean talking about. So, Drake was up
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: like six, give or takes, six or seven minutes into
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: the second half, and Missou had gone counting I believe
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: counting like a minute or so into that in the
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: first half, they had gone like almost seven minutes without
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: a field goal. They were down thirty nine to twenty eight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but to be fair Drake, all this, you know that
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  Speaker 1: they kind of slowed down a little bit, and then
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  Speaker 1: later in the quarter, like probably about the six seven
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: minute mark, Missou had started coming back and then they
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: didn't have they then they went on another like almost
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: five minute stretch with them field goal and at the
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: same time Drake hit six of eight field goals. So
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I mean that it just came down to two different
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: times basically. You know, it's crazy about Hunter Dickinson. I
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: saw this by Justin Finn on Twitter. He said Kansas
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: had won nineteen of twenty two conference titles before Hunter
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Dickens Dickenson transfer of the KU in his first two years,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: the Jayhawks fin his fifth and sixth, respectively, and they
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: won one tournament or two tournament games. I guess that
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: would be and you know, no no shame in him,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: but it's just it's just kind of you know, it's
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: kind of crazy how that how that turned out. And
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: then Michigan, Man, that was their thirteenth game they had
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: won by four points or less. It's the most in
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: the season since the since eighty five eighty six. This
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: is Jared Berson, So that was pretty freak. Like they
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: had been winning those closed games. I'll get them that
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: and let's h if you look at the round of
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: sixty four. The Big ten went eight to no and
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: they covered all their spreads, which had never been done before.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: And you know, the SEC started out eight and six,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: but they did make up for it in the second
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: round the Big twelve of six and one, The Big
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: East was four and two. Mountain West maybe they were
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: two and two and really close to having the Sweet
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: sixteen acc was two and three, you know, heading into
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  Speaker 1: the second round. And just to your point, this is
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: ope the stats. The average margin victory in round of
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  Speaker 1: sixty four this year was sixteen point seven, the highest ever,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: and ten of those wins were twenty five point blowouts
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: or twenty five at least twenty five point blowouts, which
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: is the most ever. So overall, yes, the uh the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: night sessions were better, but also for the first time
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  Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen, no one, two, three or four seeds
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  Speaker 1: lost in that.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Round to sixty four. My friend, Yeah, and it was
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: just a bit surprising. I think we have been a
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: bit spoiled, but there has been I think for the past,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: like I think ten years, either a three or four
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: seeds lost. So but before you go too crazy on chock,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: just remember this stat because this boy knows true since
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: like the nineteen seventies, when like this even became more
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: of a thing, There's only been one time there's ever
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: been a final four with all four to one seats.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: So yes, right now all the one seeds are around,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: It's only one time since they started the since they
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: expanded the tournament.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's only been one time that there's been all
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: straight one one one one. So I do think we've
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: had chalk and we should have great weekends. But if
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: you say, oh, dude, let's let the chalk keep going,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: you know, not so easy like I do. Now, could
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: it happened? For surely? You know, I would I would
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: say it's unlikely because just you know, the even though
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: you're a one seed, that two and three, four is
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: still are five. You're pretty damn close to being even
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: now now maybe this is the second time ever, but
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't go that far yet. The chalk is shocked.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: But that there's there are those pieces are all pretty
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: close on the same puzzle.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And at some point the way I look at
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a stat like that, I start to go the other
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: way at some point, you know, because it's like, well shit,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: then it's good. It's got a better chance of happening
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: in the next five years than it did five or
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: ten years ago, you know what I mean. So yeah, yeah,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that's kind of interesting. I didn't realize that because, yeah,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: it used to be thirty two teams. So Saturday, Auburn
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: took Cary Creighton the nine seed winning Gonzaga was a
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: nine seed they took you, I mean, it was eighty
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: one seventy six, and they finally didn't make it what
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: was it seven in a row or something like that,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: They finally didn't make it to a Sweet sixteen. Tennessee
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: handled Ucla. Ucla had these moments, but it just wasn't
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: enough BYU in Wisconsin, Like it looked like BYU is
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: gonna run with run away for a second there. But
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: credit to Wisconsin. They did get it down, you know,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: really tight and had a chance to win. Texas Tech
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: beat Drake, Purdue beat McNeice, Michigan came up and beat
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: A and M. So if you were listening to my
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: co host, Fade Fade Fade, I don't know if that
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: would have worked too well in that one. Well, it
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't a close game as far as the ending, so
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: it wasn't another win there, but so we could talk
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: about a couple of these because that BYU Wisconsin was
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: an entertaining game. And on the flip side, even though
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: it started real grimy and it felt like a big
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: East matchup between Arkansas and Saint John's, it definitely started
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: out slow, but then it picked up and it was
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: a good game and Arkansas just kept like getting a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: little distance and creating distance away from Saint John's and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you know, Saint John's, we know that they were going
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to have a bad shooting game at some point and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it probably would have looked like this. But it sucks
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: because they're now back as a program. But I hate
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to say it, but like this is one of those
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: years to make the final four. This might have been
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: their best, you know, their best year to do it,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: because you know, Patino's not a young guy. No disrespect obviously,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: but that's kind of funky. But still when you look
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: at the season, you gotta love it. They did, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: things this year that they haven't done in a long
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: long time. And but you know, coach cal now three
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and two against what many people think is the best
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: active coach, which I don't debate that either with Patino,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: but man, like, I know Arkansas is in the SEC,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and I know they're not a Cinderella, but when you're
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: one in six in that league in eleven and seven, overall,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of people doubted cal Perry. A lot of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: people were shitting on him. He may not be a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: top five x's and o's, but there's a lot that
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: goes into coaching, and he had his boys motivated.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Man, So that's a perfect parlay into what I was
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: gonna talk about. Because my dad, so when we were
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: driving around, he mentioned that he watched the postgame press
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: conference after KU and Arkansas and he said he found
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: it fascinating because obviously he's not a coach like me,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: but you know, he loves sports, so he's like, he
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: found it fascinating that cal Party talks about how he
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: said when he got to Arkansas his team was in
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: a dark place, meaning that the players, he said, didn't
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: have confidence. He's like, man, when I got here, like
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: they didn't believe in themselves, And he's like, so the
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: first thing I had to do was get these guys
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: to believe. And obviously, you know they are skillful players
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: that are playing basketball at an SEC conference at a school.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: But my and my dad was catched. He's like again,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: you know, and I was trying to explain to him.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I said, you know, nowadays, like being a coach, whether
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: it is high school where I'm at or college, like
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: it really is a lot of the mental game. Now
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Back in the day, you know, you might have like
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: the you know, get on your ass coach and get
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: a scream at him. Nowadays, but you may not bring
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: it up either, you know, yeah, yeah, you really do it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: You may not bring it to the public and tell
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: people about mental health and confidence and stuff.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or and you had more just some like like
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: raw rock guys, and hey, you're just gonna scream at
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: you and if you're gonna Todd and Mole, will you
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: kick kick off the team? We don't need you know
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: that kind of like just hardcore off fans.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: O good.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the door, you know, Yeah, there's Hey, you
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: don't want to be out here, find you're a sissy,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: like you can leave like okay, well, you know, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: nowadays ovis nowadays guys who have nil options or to
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: transfer or just start different with how they're constructed mentally,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Like this generation of kids is much different than you
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: when you and I grew up brothers. So uh that
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: But cal parsaid, he's like, these guys didn't know how
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: to win. He's like, I had to get that out
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: of them, and once we got that going, then we
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: started getting on a roll, which kind of does make
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: sense if you look at their record they were zero
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: and six or one and five, where one in five
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: or one and six whatever. But that goes to show
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: that again, and I know I do ripping for x's
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: and o's and I'm not the only one that does it,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: but there is that mental approach where hey, you gotta
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: win the clubhouse over and I don't know what, I
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: forget who the Arkansas coach before was, but clearly the
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: guys were in a bit of a funk muscleman. Oh,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: you're right, you're right. It was Musclan. Obviously they've been
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: so ff you know, yeah, and it's just it. But
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: it was interesting because you're right, it's not always about
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: x's and o's. Obviously those help, but it's not like he.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Can't do any excess. And don't know, maybe he's not
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the like if you had a chort or not, maybe
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: if you had a choice of three x's and o's,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't fall in that. But as we know, it
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: comes down to a lot of stuff.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: And now when you got he's a good coach, yes,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: and the buy in factor him is recruited and a talker.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Dude's probably the best in our lifetime. So if you're
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: talking looking for asking when you ever recruit you, that's
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: what he does. Uh so, hey, that's what.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: We're gonna if you're not to interrupt, but if you
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: were going to critique someone in this game, you could
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: point to Patino when not you know, it's sitting his
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: best player, even though he played like shit, he's sad
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: in the last four or five minutes.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and now I'm gonna get to a little bit
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: of not a ram but it's kind of my two
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: cents of dude and part of it, and I'm gonna
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: get to the Michigan game or two is was the
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: refs now in fairs? You're calling it both ways, But
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: obviously this is one of those things where you know
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: how to say what type of team is Saint John's
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: very physical, very scrappy, biggest basketball team, a little bit
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: old school, clearly from how the refs called the game.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: The physical play that Saint John's used to was not
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: really allowed. Not I'm saying like, I'm not saying that
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: fouls were bad calls, but like the way they've played
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: all year. Because I watched, I fell love of that
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: team is here. They were fun, but they were a
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: more physical team. But when the refs call you for
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: how you play a it's hard to switch it up
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: and be They were in foul trouble the whole game.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: So I'm not it's not the ref's fault. It's the
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: same John Floss. But if you were to watched a
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: game film of how they played in the Big East,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: now they played that game, they were getting called for
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: more stuffing than it used to. Again, it is what is.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: As a player, obviously have to accommodate to be different.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: But I did think the refs overall for both teams
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: did a bit too much, like because there were a
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: couple of games when my dad and I were talking
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: about how man they're letting them bank, They're lett him play.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: So it doesn't have to be oh it's a tournament
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: that the whistles have to be out the pocks and
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: blow the whistles a lot, like you know, so it
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: wasn't always the case. But for that game, I think
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Saint John's had the rest and were not to their benefit. Now, okay,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: they had a chance. That game was close down the stretch.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Braganst as with them really well, like if you look
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: at players, they had the right type of matchup to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: beat them as well.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: They they did. And obviously Arkansas is on a heater,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: you know, they they they had that they almost be
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: that crazy for South Carolina that they had. You know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: they had their moments of the SEC tournament, but they
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: they held on for that one, you know, And yeah,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: they're just playing good ball now. So again, looking how
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: they started and how they are now, hats off to
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Caliparty for getting the team on the same mojo, which
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: is talked about this press conference. And hey, dude, you're dancing.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: You're the only team to knock out on one or
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: two seats, so I'll credit to you, all right. Metalley
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: ran for the Michigan A and M game here as
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: quickly as I bet a M to make the sweet sixteen,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: they were plus one fifteen. I was like, hey, that's
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: good money. I think they'll beat Michigan. And Theouly won
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: the first Game two, vercl the call that will stick
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: in my head forever, Chris until next year. Golden, who
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: was Michigan's best player of that game. With five minutes
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: to go, he had four fouls, drives down the court
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: literally the A and M guy was feet were set
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: outside the charge lane. Golden runs over the dude who
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: he probably like six inches of height on. They don't
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: call a single thing. He makes the layup. It went
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: from two to four, and then Golden scored like the
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: next like eight out of twelve points. That was definitely
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a charge. It wasn't calling. If it was I bet
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: a m wins the game, I wouldn't I bet okay,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: But it was like, well it was paper. Your view
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: were set if that, if that's a charge called, Golden's
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: out the game. That's his fifth foul, and I bet
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: a m wins the game because Golden was their rock.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: He was their course going down the stretch. So that
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: pissed me off. He because it's a bet b. I
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: thought the rest made a horrible call. But see they
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: didn't call it, and I'm just upset they lost.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: But it was Michigan too, huh. And it was Michigan
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the team you said, fade, faded, fade.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, they picked the back up. Hey, the way
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: they finished the Big Ten tournament or they had their
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: mogile going. I just if that call goes differently, I
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: think we're legit time bout a different team because Golden scored,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: like I said, the next eight out of twelve. But hey,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: it is what I mean. You can be subjective and
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: basketball calls anyway you want to go. But that one,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: that one stick stuck in the crowd a little bit.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: But hey, A and M they were Now this was
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: kind of one of those big swing games because A
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: and M. If you watch the first second, first part
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: of the second half, A and M was up seven
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: to nine the whole time, so they had the game
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: in their wraps and Michigan got out a little bit
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: of a three pointer brage and they came back. So, hey,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I it is what is I don't think Michigan's gonna
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: cut down the nets. If they do them gonna have
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: to eat a lot of crow. But he either, no, no,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: they weren't.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: No.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I completely agree with that same as well. So but yeah,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: that one that bought me. And now I'll throw it
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: here and I'll throw it back to usher, so I'm
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: going too long. You're right. That BYU Wisconsin was fun.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: That was two teams who have offensively talented players who
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: play a pretty fuss, fast paced, fun motion game like
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: to shoot threes. And I know people were kind of
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: taking shot to Ton Jay because he had a bad
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Big Ten title game, but that was four games in
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: four days, legs were tired. Ton J and Saunders both
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: did their thing. TONJ. He dropped thirty seven points. Dude,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: that was That was a fun with Chris. That was
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: simply two teams that want to score. Their defense ain't
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: the best, but offensive they are very fundamental. That was
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: just a super fun hit.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, And I do want to go back to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Arkansas Saint John's real quick because so when you look
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: at free throws, right, oh yeah, well Arkansas had twenty
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: seven free throws, right, they were nineteen to twenty seven,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: seventy percent. They only hit two threes. Right. Saint John's
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: had thirty one free throws and they were seventy one percent.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: They were twenty two They only hit two threes, but
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: they shot from the field twenty eight percent from the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: field compared to forty three, So they got the line
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: four more times, so I don't I really don't think
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: it was that was a major major factor of why
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Saint John's lost the game, because you're missing shots, like
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: if I guess because you're getting charges on offense or whatever.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I hear what you're saying. But I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: just think that they got beat and then the matchup
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: was really bad for him because they had they had bigs,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: they're athletic, they could defend their long and lanky. They
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: were like one of the teams that could match up
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: really well with them. So I just don't want to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: take too much credit away from Arkansas because, like I said, one,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: this is our Cinderella team, TRUO. I just think if
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: people are gonna dog cat, then you don't want to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: just say, well, you know, like you can dog them.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That's fine. Plenty of people did, like you mentioned, but
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want to take credit away from it either
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: because that to me that that's bullshit too. They have more,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: you know, the better team that day, they had more
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: free throws, so they have more free throw at tens.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and again I don't think the rest were buyasports
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: of team. I've just thought they called Tomatey fouls, which
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: you know, but.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: No, but they both were you know, they're on the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: line about the same though.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just yeah, that's fair.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: So was there any did you agree with the best
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: player being on the bench last five minutes? So you say, well,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: he played a lot, and he was playing like shit,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and they did make a run back to make it
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a tight, you know, a really tight game in the end.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: What were your thoughts there?
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Well, I do think they should have put him in
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: because now I know he was like three for eighteen.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: But like that Shakari Richmond, the dude that came from
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: uh Syracuse, he fouled out like five six minutes to go,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: and he is their one like true off the dribble
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: can get you a dump shot kind of guy. So
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: with him fouling out, so your best shooters out and
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: then you take out your other best shooter who was
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: like the biggest scard of the year. Dude, how are
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: you going to manufacture your points? And that did lead
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Darkansas kind of taking control down the end. So when
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: your two best guards who carried your team the whole
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: year were not in the game, it's hard to manufacture points.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: So sometime is they didn't get back in the game
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: though without him, so but I would have put him
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: back in the last few minutes.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, I just think.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It's something you can be critical. I think it's that's fair.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: The if it was a show on the other foot,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: people would have been killing Cal killing for that.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I will say to wrap up the cal Pari show,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: give him credit because last week, Uh, but Boogie flaonn
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: was their best player to start off the team this
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: year and he got hurt and he was out for
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: the whole regular season and he was healthy coming back now,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: So I will give him credit because they said when
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: he left, the offense kind of found their mojo a
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: little bit. So him coming back, I will give Cal
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: credit because, as you know as a coacher, as a
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: sports fan, when you bring a piece back in that
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: expects it kind of be the alpha or the guy's
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: gonna have the ball their hand a lot. How do
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: you make that fit? Because that John L. Davis from
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: FAU who I loved last year, came over and as
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Flawn went out, he took over in a way. So
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: I will give Cal kredit to find a way to
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: make the matters work because, as you in basketball, like
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: the team that your guy who runs the show is
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: a huge piece. But when he's been out for literally
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: your whole season, I will say, that's a nice job
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: to make that word because offensively they made him work better. Now,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: you could have easily seen Arkansas lose the game, say wow,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: you know you tried to you try to mix your
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: peaches pieces, BacT you et or did work out? Which
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: would he That wouldn't even been a criticism, but just
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: a fair point. So to bring a good piece back
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: and make him fit was hard to do because that
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: could have backfired in his face easily.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: And now he's the second head coach all time to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: leave four different schools to the Sweet sixteen. Lon Krueger
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: is the only other one fourteen.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, damn.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Now we had to turn into cal show just because
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: during college football we have to show, you know, we
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: got to turn it into some other dude from old
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Miss Show. I just had to make up, I guess.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: But someday was by far the best day we were
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: actually talking about before we hit record. I got a
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: late story on it, but I dvard everything and I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: had a couple buddies over there. One fell off down
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the stretch because he had to work early in the morning.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: But we were watching the game, watching the game, watching
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the game. The first three or four were straight up,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and then they started to do every hour they'd start
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: a new game, and we just sometimes it's a piece
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: of paper, sometimes it's like a little crease up a newspaper.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a T shirt. But we put a little
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: something on the top of your TV and we stay
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: off social media and nowadays, and then you fast forward
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: like the halftime show, and we we literally from like
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: about three or four o'clock. We watched all of them
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: till like one thirty. We stopped and got something to
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: eat and went outside, got some fresh air. But that
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: was a great game. It started out with Yukon and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Florida Yucone. I mean, for a second there, I was like, dude,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: yu Coon's gonna do this like it is looking really
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: really this My and the Florida ended up, you know,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: getting the job done. Baylor started out tough, but it
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: didn't last that long. Duke kind of ran away with it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Saint Mary's in New Mexico for that matter. As a
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: seven and a ten seed, they it was like well
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: into the second half before New Mexico had their first
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: three pointer and no, that was Saint Mary's. It was
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: like four or five minutes in the second half they
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: hit their first three and New Mexico had gone on
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a long, long, no field goal stretch. Obama Michigan State
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: did move on Kentucky and Illinois. It had shades of, oh,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: this might be good, but Kentucky just kept pushing them away.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Oh miss was up, but then Iowa State came back,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and then they pushed it back up and got away
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: with it. Obviously, the last two games Colorado State Maryland
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and Oregon Arizona. Literally one thirty in the morning watching
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: that Oregon Arizona. But Colorado State looked to have hit
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a shot that may do it, and then Maryland hit
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a shot at the buzzer, but we got a buzzer beater,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and it just seemed like Oregon wouldn't go way down
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the stretch. They kept being within range and with range
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and love hit a you know, had a great game
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: for Arizona, and that was a fun, fun game. And
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you know, Oregon, it started so well they had to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: lead for quite some time. But those last two games
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: were phenomenal. What you what'd you think because it started
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: out really good, had some mid between like it was okay,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: was pretty decent, and then the last two games are great.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: So I forget what pot it was because it was
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: were like twelve pods last week just tried to take ts.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: They realized like the first like four picks and made
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: of the tournament were based off podse. I was like,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: what the fuck I should just go with. I had
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: a stretch, brother. I went thirty six and four in
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: February of like basketball.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: This was like hot.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that's like every day for me, I'd
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: be living in a mansion. But I had a great run.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, why do I always listen to pods,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: you know for the unstably tournament? Then I try and
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: what they say, and then I'm like, dude, I should
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: stick them out stuff because for the last like I'll
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: say this, Chris, I will no longer bet the first
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: four playing games of the sixteen seeds. And I'm like
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Ozero and five. In the past like three years, every
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: time I hear a tipple bet this sixteen seed for
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: the playing game, I always lose that. So I'm gonna
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: avoid that next year. Don't let me bet the sixteen
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: seed playing games next year. Please, Okay, all right for
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: my recap from Sunday, I think the coolest sound bite
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: is the fact that Derek Kleeen actual said in the huddle,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: I'm from Maryland. I want the fucking ball, and the
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: coach is like, oh, okay, I'm from Baltimore or oh yeah, sorry,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I'm from Baltimore. I want to play. You're you're okay,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: I'm from Baltimore.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: So dude, yeah, I like and you just call and
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: he banked off the glass. Hey, now, it's funny. I
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: actually had this chat with my dad, uh, you know,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: because obviously Carlos State had their best player beat Clifford,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: and I was like, I'll be curious to see what
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Calino State draws up because before Maryland had their buzzer beater,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Carlino State was down and the drippled play and I
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: was like, you'll be curious to see what they do
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: here because obviously Maryland's going to know that, hey, Clifford's
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: gonna shoot the ball now to we're on the same
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: that why vibe vibe there with Carlino State where they
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: gave them all to their best player. Literally, if you
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: look at the play. All the eyes of Maryland are
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: on Clifford. They even a kind of double team, and
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: he made a great half court swing, like huge pass
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: for an open three. That guy busted it so again, now,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: now again, and we we can have the bay going
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: back and forth. But in basketball, do you know, Chris
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: nine out ten times, if the game is on the line,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: you give the ball to your best player, like Wisconsin
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: did with tonj and he came up short. Great defense.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: But there's something to be said for the other team
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: knows who your best player is. So if you if
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: you play, give them all your best player. Sure you
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: want to ride and die with your guy, but also
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: you're gonna give it something a decoy. Yeah, yeah, And
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: that was a great play, a great pass. Also, you
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: have to do credit because I'm sure there's been times
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: in college basketball where you drop playing for your alpha
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: guy to pass the ball there decoy he doesn't. So
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: all that was beautiful. But then for Queen who I
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: didn't know all the way.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: They were twenty four and one. Sorry to cut you off.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: A twenty four and one when leading with five minutes
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: or least Colorado State this year.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Damn Yeah, that's yet scarrow too at two points in
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: the last six twenty five of that at the one
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: forty three mark, so they that was just a weird ending.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: You know, that nine old run really got Maryland back
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: and next thing you know, they were up four points.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: It was pretty crazy.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so that was just fun. We finally had
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: a buzzer beat, which we've not had. That's the first
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: time in two years because we there last year. So hey,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: so that was just a fun game. Like you and
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I were saying that, you really had a feeling that
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: carl State was kind of got it. They like they
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: were in control that game. They really were, like Maryland
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: maker runs and Carlos would go back. Carlos was up seven.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: They never really got I don't think they ever got
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: down by more than four in the second half and
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: they got the lead backs. So that was a super
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: fun game. Carlo State showed that they believed in that
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: they deserve to be there because going into the tournament,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: the Mountain West was one and twenty five as a
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: tense year higher. But hey, you beat Memphis, he also Maryland,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: like that was a they deserved to show. So that
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: was a super fun game to watch.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: But now the coach is coming back home, baby.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Hey amen, hopefully he hopefully produced the same type of
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: rewards with your Gophers, because hey, he put his time
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: in there, and he put together a hell of a squad.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: He's been coaching like either head or assistant for a
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: long time. He's like fifty one, so I'm really happy
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: we got an experienced guy. Yeah.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: And for Iowa State, man, again, I think I was
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: a little pissed off an old Miss that they beat
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: my heels up. But man, I really thought I would
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: say it was gonna win that game. And not only
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: did they lose, but they that game. The thirteen point
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: loss doesn't replicate how.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Bad that game was. That was.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously I turned it off. I think I switched
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: to the Michigan State game. But Iowa State was down
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: like mid twenties for most that whole game. So hey,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: whatever old Miss is doing, they're on a roll and.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: They as legit as we know.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe not the best human being, but yes, yeah he's
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: got he's as well. Yeah, but we'll move on. Hey,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: they and what the crazy part was at the start
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: of that game, I Aowa State was killing him on
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: the boards, like they all Biowa States guys were bigger.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: They'd had like three or four offensive rebounds one time
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: and I was stay gud rebound and all five Old
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Miss guys were round him. I'm like, okay, dude, they're
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: gonna kill him on the glass. But they did it
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: an Old Miss. They're they're they're a pretty hot shooting team.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: So hats off to them. And uh, hey, like you said,
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Arizona Oregon, that was just a fun game. Uh again,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: other game where I was, I was shook because I
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: did pick Arizona. I did win money on that, but
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, IERSO, I should win the sturn
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: that game, Chris was nineteen to four Oregon, and I
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: was like, damn, Like you know, maybe the Tommy Lloyd
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: like fall asleep moment, but they to be down nineteen
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: to four and then still when the first half was
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: pretty impressive, So, uh, you're right, that was that was
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: a super fun It was just a fun day. That
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: was the day I think we were expecting to get
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: earlier in the tournament and it finally kicked in. And hey, Duke,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: I'll give him grand that. Let me look it up,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: so I want to pronounce his name right, But the
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Duke center I wasn't malac man, you know, because my
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: buddies saying, hey, Duke's got three potential NBA guys like
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: that Flag Mallek and Canipple Mala dude, that dude's a baller,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Like yeah.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I was going crazy.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so those four guys like, I hate, I hate
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: saying this because I've that this ain't my color. I'm
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I'm the baby the way that God, the god sky
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: color he created. And Jordan went to but hey, that
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: that that Mollich was special. Proctor was hitting threes like crazy,
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: uh and Flag, you know, I he didn't. He had
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: kind of a qui game respare. He had nice Alu
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: dunk and hit one three. But the key Yeah, And
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing that really surprised me, Chris,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: it's been on one Duke compliment. Baylor has always been
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: a super athletic team. He could tell that Baylor's athleticism
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: couldn't match up with dukes size and athleticism, and they
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: got Baylor in big foul trouble and once Baylor center
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: went to the bench with three fouls in the first half,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: that game was done. Because Baylor was actual kind of up.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: They were taking turns in the first half. But I
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: believe like seven minutes to goo Baylor Center got at
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: three fouls and then.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: The game finished.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: The first half finished like a seventeen to four run.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's all yea, So it was done by that time.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do cut out athlete Baylor, which I did not
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: expect when I was looking over that game.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: That proked her as eighteen. This was still with time left,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: but it was eighteen threes in the last three games
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: like late. I don't know if he hit another one,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: but it was. He was six and seven at one point,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: and the first back to back, the first player since
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: twenty ten in Duke history with five three point mads
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: in back to back turning games, and the head coach
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: was the last one to do it, which is kind
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: of cool. Yeah, so you know, after like six losses,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: was the most losses ever in the first round from
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the SEC. But clearly that had to do with you know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: how many how many they have in there the the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: loose besides Arkansas who was eight and ten in the conference,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State, Georgia, Bandy, Texas, and Oklahoma, they went one
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: and five. For the people that you know had the
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: had the losing records in that conference. But yeah, they
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: also set a record though on the flip side, sixteens
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: or was it seven though?
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Seven?
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, seven, that's right, because they set a record at
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the time, tied it and then they went up for
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: seven out of sixteen, so you know that's that's half right.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: So and I think it's six or seven straight Sweet
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: sixteens for Houston. Izzo moved up for tied with Roy Williams,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and John Thompson was most win most wins went trailing
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: at half. Uh huh yeah, kind of kind of interesting. Uh,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: good old coach k was number one. I had to
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: throw that in there, you know what I mean, Just ka,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: you're right. I did this the first time since Sweet
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: sixteen composed an entirely major conference teams. So the Sweet
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: sixteen officially started in nineteen seventy five, that's when they
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: opened it up. Only basically every other Sweet sixteen had
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: at least seven conferences. Now it's only four. But a
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: lot of people are saying NLI and the transfer and
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: all this. It's like I would for this in particular thing,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I would say it had more to do with conference alignment,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: because if you look at it, BYU. You know, for football,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: they're independent, or they were, but they were in the
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Mountain West and the West Coast, so BYU would have
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: been an outsider, Arizona would have been a PAC twelve,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: and Houston would have been an AAC. So I would
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: blame realignment more on.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Oh C, look it, we're all screwed.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, because two years ago FAU and San
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Diego played each other in the Final four and there's
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: no three with no top three seeds, like people were
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: complaining about that. But then on the flip side, you know,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: sometimes when when a qual like a really elite program
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: gets five, four or five days to scout, you, it
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: usually gets a little ugly, you know, by the end
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: of that game. So it's like it's fun to see that,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: but then sometimes it ruins it as it goes, And
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: so I kind of think it's like the hardcore thing,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: you know, like us hardcore as we love Cinderellas and
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: all that. We'll take whatever the hell the attorney gives us. Right,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: But the casuals, if you look at that year, the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: ratings were way down. So the casuals, like it's kind
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: of like the NBA. The last six years, is it
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: five or six years? No one's repeated, so you know,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: from our point of view, it's like, hell yeah, that's
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: kind of cool. You know, it's mix it up a
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: little bit. But now you're going to start to see
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Ken Boston do it? Could Denver do it? Could this team?
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: Do?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: So it's like you went six traight years. Now the
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: next six I think they'll be a repeat, you know.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's like people are gonna complain anyway.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: But you know, like you said, Drake beat a SEC
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: team and they had a bunch of T two dudes.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: So if you stay in Ali, that kind of kills
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: it right there. So I don't know. I just think
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: people are gonna bitch. I will say this like thirteen
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: to Orom from Yukon and Dan Hurley, hell of a
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: hell of a run, man, hell of a run. But
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: when he talked about oh, he walked off the floor
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and said, I hope they don't get F like we
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: got ft Baylor. I hope you don't get F. I
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: thought that was a little over the top, to be
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: honest with you. I don't know. There's some little points
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: in there. You can, you know, and you can definitely
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: point to or whatever. But and then a lot of
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: people thought that the Maryland Queen that it was a travel. Dude,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: that's basketball, it's basketball, And honestly, it was really close.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: It wasn't an obvious one. And sure the NBA rule
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the gather is the gather step is an NBA rule,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: so it's not a ncublea but we do kind of
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: see it. So to me to say that's a clear travel,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: what the hell? I think that's a little ridiculous. And
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: you got guys like Stephen A. Smith that says no Cinderella,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: you know, in the Sweet sixteen. You know this, if
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: this continues, it'll mark, you know, mark the death of
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: college basketball. And it's not true. Go look at the
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: ratings that year, Like it wasn't like you could make
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: the argument that's the death like, which that would be
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: stupid too, but like, I don't know, man, it's we're
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: just in that that time frame where you know, people
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: love to say crazy shit and that's what it sells
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: and it's really not about, you know, what it should
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: be about. But Florida did have to grind that one out.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: The PAC twelve at the time, early in the day
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: was nine and two. They had a hell of a
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: record through it. Perdue advanced to the six Sweet sixteen
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: in the last eight years. Obviously they made an Elite
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: eight in that stretch. They made you know, their runner
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: up in that stretch too, So I don't like their chances,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: but you gotta love that. That's pretty freaking cool. Yeah,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: any other stuff from that before we start to break
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: down the Thursday games.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: No, yeah, I'm good. Let's let's get to Thursday. My
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: friend and actually associates starting with Thursday. Did you just
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: want to go by the regions or do you or sorry,
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: just go Thursday games?
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, Thursday games.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, So again, like I said one positive, hey,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: we got good. I had a single point spreads above
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: ten points. So again in three you're getting good games.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: I know, chalk is chock, but ye're again now like
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: that you're Carolina. They played Saint Peter's. That was a
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: cool story. Saint Peter's didn't have a chance that game.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: You know, so the cinderell is normally around this time
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: starts fade away.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: So that's an important point.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because like that's Saint Peter's story. That was badass.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: But when you know when they played Carolina, you're like, dude,
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: you could tell they they're just a different team. But
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: as you said, you had five days for Pep. You
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: know when when Saint Peter's won that first game, team's
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: got one day to prep. That one in five is
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: a big difference. That Cinderella can live off the moto.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: Then you gotta got talk to the media and kind
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: of come back down to earth or stay up on
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: your cloud nine. Then you got like, oh shit, now
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: we gotta play the big boys and they're waiting for us.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: So yeah, and again that's why that Cinderella opening weekend
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: is cool. And yeah, this is the first time in
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: fifteen years that a seed above a ten does no
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: longer exist in the turn. That's crazy. Yeah, so higher
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: than a ten seed that game. Next year i'd be
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: tennis from a SEC.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is crazy.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: So I think next we'll give a little magic give
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: but we'll see, we'll see.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: So I got I got a question for you, yes
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: for upsets on Thursday, does b YU have the better
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: chance or does the RAZORBA Arkansas b YU and or
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: it could be and or maybe you're picking them both,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: But which one would do you think has a better
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: chance before we actually do the predictions?
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Uh? Got call? I would go with Arkansas.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: That's what I think too. That's what I think too.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: All right, So b yu Alabama will go off the
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: first one that tips that six nine? What what do
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: you what? What says you won this matchup? Obviously a
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: lot of people are saying, you know, bet the over.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Well, shit, okay, if you bet the over, the overs
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: won seventy five and a half, which I think when
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: we talked about this earlier, I said maybe one eighty,
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: which I has maybe drunk a bit. I'm not really
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: so Vegas believes is gonna score is gonna be like
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: ninety to ninety. Okay, So all right, here's my thing.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I think that shit, I damn, this game is gonna
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: be fun to watch. It is, Dude, I think that
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: I think that Bama has better athletes. I think Byu
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: has a better fluid offense. Like there was a couple
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: of times a weekend when BAMA just wanted dunk on
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Rober Morris and won. Dunk Yesterday, Bama just dunks on
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: your ass. I don't know if they just dunk on
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: Byu like you're matching team work. Dude, if you went
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: if they want it wrong with you, Like, man, this
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: one's gonna be fun because if you're Alabama, I would
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: just turn on that Iowa State Big twelve title game
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: where they that a record for the most threes in
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: a conference tournament game. They had twenty eight threes with
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: like five minutes to go. So I I mean, I
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: think again, I think BYU's offense is just a little
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: more fluid, but Bama's got better athletes. I don't know, man,
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Like I think the five and a half points spreads
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: is just a bit of sec love. But if like
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: the big issue BAM has had over the past few
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: years Christmas team is that, Dude, they finally play team
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: wants to buckle down and play some defense and just
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: lock you down. L BYU, Dude, I don't. I'm just
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: gonna shut up. I just whoever hits more three is
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: gonna win the game. Is Bama slightly better? Sure, but
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: this game is gonna be fun as hell. It should
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: break the nineties hopefully. But I really don't have a
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: slight edge because I think these teams are very very
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: similarly built and you just get Okay, whoever hits the
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: most streets is gonna win. I will take BYU to cover. Actually, hell,
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: I'll take I'll take them in the upset. This is
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: a fifty to fifty draw to me. So I'll take
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: BYU and upset Bama because I think they're gonna hit
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: more threes in the Alabama and Alabama can't just they
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: can't even be why you out the gym. I don't
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: believe they can't.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I like what you said about they got a better
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: game plan, they got a better offense that you're just
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: gonna constantly be able to lean on. Yeah, better athletes,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: but right, and you know Bama they don't, you know
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: they got I would say Kentucky because remember when we
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: talked a couple of weeks ago that Bama in Kentucky
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: looked like they were not necessarily like turning the corner
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: when it came to defense, but they were showing some
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: life on that side, especially Bama, because you know, for
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: a while it was they weren't at all. But I
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: would say now that we're here, Kentucky probably has shown
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: more and kept it.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that Illinois game, they showed that Illinois Oil
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: has got a badass offense that was impressing what Kentucky
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: did yesterday.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: So I'm going BYU right up. I'm picking BYU. And
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: it's funny because remember how remember how I was saying,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: maybe it'll go crazy in the first two rounds Dennis Chock,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: but it could be the opposite too, you know, true.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: So I kind of feel like, you know, yeah, six
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: seeds not crazy. But if I tell you midway through
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: the season, is Bama in the sweet sixteen gonna win
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: over BYU? More likely people say, oh, yeah, yeah, that's
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. So if a six and a ten move on,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: that would be a big upset for this year, that's
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: for sure. So I kinda on Thursday, I'm kind of
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I'm picking two upsets, but I'm with you on the BYU.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: And I do think Florida will get the job done.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: But it is going to be another grinder, I think,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: because I think the Florida's depth will come through like
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: it normally does. Their bigs are just solid, but you know,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: as me, no, Maryland has got bigs two and they've
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: been hot down Both teams have been really hot down
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the stretch. Obviously. I just think Florida's deeper now Maryland
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: has a lot of vets though too, so you know
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: veteran that I don't know. But I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: go Florida on that one.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Sir, Okay, okay, uh for yeah, for that one. I
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: just man, I think that Florida kind of got their
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: hiccup off the waivers yukon, Yeah, I did hear at
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: one point I should have thought about more. What I
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: should have bet it was that, hey, you cut, Florida's
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: got verteine, you Kon's got the better coach. Hurley is
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: a hot hit. He does go over the top some times,
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: but the dude is he's better exs and goals now
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: versus Golden, which is probably well, I may argue, but
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: probably was true. I should have thought about that, but hey,
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: his his team still won. I think the big issue
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: here is the fact that just Maryland, you're you're, you
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: only got five guys like that's that their their bench
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: literally doesn't score them points. So what if one guy
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: gets in foul trouble? Like I just think to be
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: a team like Florida need a little bit of depth. Now,
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: could Maryland go off? They sure could because they are
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: certain five maybe the best certain five in the country,
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: but it is literally those five. And I don't think
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: this team, who I've seen enough play, who does have
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: their offensive droughts, which I think more than you should.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: Which hell, they had offensive droughts Yesterdaver's car on State.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: So y'all take the Gators to win, and I'll but
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: I won't take them to cover six. And Nafsen's a
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: bit high, but I do think Florida wins.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Now Duke in Arizona. On the surface, you know, Duke's deeper,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: they got more talent. But it kind of lines up
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: for my co host here because they have a certain
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: guy named Caleb Love. Now they're gonna need more than
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: just him, that's for sure. But could you imagine if
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Caleb Love and company upset Duke, how happy this guy
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: named Marshall would be. I'm thinking I'm picking Duke, but
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: it just kind of feels like, I don't know. I'm
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: just looking at this thing. I think Duke's gonna win cleanly,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, you know what I mean, Maybe
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just giving you a glimmer of hope, sir.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: He could be uh. I will say that, you know, Duke.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: No, obviously, North Carolina.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: You know reference there, Oh yes, my tar Heels man
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: screwll Miss. I love lang Kiff and football, but not basketball.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: I duke out athlete A Baylor, but I don't think
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: they'll be able to out athlete Arizona. No. Are they
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: a better basketball team, Yeah, for sure, Like I'm not
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: gonna argue that, but I don't think they This ain't
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: gonna be quite a walk in the park because Arizona's
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: got the athlete and the muscles. They do too. I
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: might my head, my heart's tell me just to pick Arizona.
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: I do think when the offense gets roy, their offense
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: is just as good as Duke. You know, I don't.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: And I'm also having that flashback of back in like
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: probably like twenty twelve or so, when Arizona had that
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: stud that the Wolves drafted he dunked all over Duke
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: knock come out the Sweet sixteen that I was pretty fine.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: I'm having Arizona flashbacks of the Jefferson Jefferson yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: He went down the lane and just put it on them.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I went for a flashback like that, So
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: I can't. I've said enough nice thtuf about Duke for
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: the past weeks. I can't do anymore. I'm taking Arizona
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: in the upset. Caleb Love drops thirty. They go off
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: Cooper Flag as an off day, and Arizona marches on
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: to the final four of the first ones. He goes
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: home all right. Moving on Arkansas ricks Texas Tech. I
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: actually so speed of offensive droughts if you want. Texas
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: Tech's when they played the Big Twelve tournament and even
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: a couple of games in March Madows. So far, there's
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: something about this team that just irks me just a
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: little bit. I know they're a good team, but they
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: also have these moments where like they're now. I know
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: they've been a little unhealthy too, Smath. It's because their
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: best players were in but they I just their offense
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: to me at times just makes me get a little weary.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna take the hot hand. I'm gonna
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: go with cal I just think that. Yeah, And as
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: my buddy said, dude, Texas Tech's coach screams too much,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: he just needs to coach. I'm gonna take that, Dude,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: you too much, so just worry about coaching. So I'm
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: taking the Hogs to upset. I'll be the Thursday night
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: game before I go to bed. I wake up early Friday,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: So I'll take the Hogs to win versus Texas Tech.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: It won't be a close game, but I'll definitely take
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech plus no sorry, Arkansas plus five and a
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: half in Arizona plus eight and a half. So, man,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: I'm picking three upsets on Thursday. If I might need
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: to bet ten bucks on those three teams to win,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: because that'd be a really nice payout.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I just the confidence level of much like you said,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: with Arkansas and the freshmen are playing good. I just yeah,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: I think I like him in this game too. I
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: really think that this Thursday is gonna make you know.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: These upsets, even though they're not wild and crazy, I
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: just think that they're gonna get it done, man, And
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: we're gonna see b yu in in in the Razorbacks
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: freaking move on and it won't. And like I said,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: midway through the year, most people wouldn't say that, but
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: here we are, man, And since we're on Thursday, let's uh,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: we have obviously the East in the West here. Why
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: don't we do the picks to the final four? Okay,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: all right, we got the the West, so it's well,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to do you'd have to do y
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: U and z.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: I'd have b Yu vers Zona and I will take.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: So they're gonna both be over one hundred two. Is
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: that what's gonna happen there?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: No? Yeah, no, ship uh, I would take I'll take
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: Byu to come out of that bracket. I think Yu
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: beat Zonia in a ninety seven to ninety five game,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: and I will take Florida to finish the Calipari runs.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: I'll take Florida go to the final four over Calipari
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: and yeah a b Yu over Zona.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: I'm all chocked up. I got Duke in Florida. I'm
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: chocked up to the max. Okay, okay, I got Duke
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: in Florida. Or No, No, that's wrong, that's wrong Duke
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: and b Yu. Oh yeah no, I mean I passed it.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: That's what I did. Yeah, So yeah, I uh so
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: I got Florida beating the razorback and dude, so yeah,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: I basic it. Yeah, Duke and yeah, I got I'm
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: all chocked up. Man, we're going for number one. It
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: hasn't happened. We're gonna We're gonna get there, dude, hasn't
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: happened well all four number ones, all right, So it
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: takes saying that. For my next one, actually, which we have,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: we play our.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Huge rival, So I will be pulling what my coast
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: does in DVR because Friday, I'll on my phone off Friday.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: Don't want, don't read the text messages. Come home, kick
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: the feet up, and watch some good basketball. It starts off,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: but do not to serve block block block. Uh, I'm
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: gonna go against wisdom here. I think Old Miss is
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: on a freaking heater. I mean, I know Carolina was
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: all should they get here? Carolina whooped into US of
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: State's ass, But Old Miss whooped their ass. They will,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: they will say it's they might be playing the best
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: team basketball if anyone in the tournament right now, are they?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: I'm say they're the best team. No, but sometimes you
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: find your hot groove and you get going. Old Miss
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: is playing good basketball. The Michigan hell Sparty had a
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: great year. But right now, for asking me who the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: better team is the better I was Old Miss, like,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying Michigan State, Like you know they they
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: beat New Mexico. Yeah, whatever, okay is.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: That because North Carolina.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, they beat two teams I like quite a bit,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: but they handled them pretty well. Like you know, they
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: read Carolina.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: I can't hear you, and so did.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: I would say it too, So.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we lost Marshall. Hello, I'm here, dang, Okay, well
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: you hear me. I don't know what the hell happened.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: It's still recording. I see him there. I'm here, but
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: I'm just maybe hitting mute. I don't know. It was
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: kind of weird because I heard you calling back. Okay,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: I saw mute unmuted. I'm here, you're unmuted. Yep, nothing, huh.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, because we don't want to mess
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: up the recording. So if we can't hear you in
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit, just text me your your picks because
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: I don't have time to do the show over again.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: And maybe you're already doing that.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you hear me.